报告人：范青博士(Research Assistant Professor，Northwestern University, USA)

时间：2013年7月11日(周四)上午10点

地点：东7A座3楼3-26会议室
专家简介：

Dr. Qing Fan（范青博士）, Research Assistant Professor，Northwestern University，Department of Microbiology and Immunology.

Dr. Fan’s scientific training in Microbiology began in China at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His PhD thesis focused on the biological control of postharvest diseases in horticultural produce. After receiving his PhD in 2001, He joined Dr. Peter Wolk’s lab at Michigan State University where he studied the progression and spacing of heterocyst differentiation in Cyanobacteria Anabaena using transposon mutagenesis. In 2005, he transferred to Northwestern University and began his work on pathogenic mechanisms related to disease in eukaryotic cells and human beings. Dr. Fan has a total of near 60 papers with more than 20 of them published on SCI journals. The total SCI impact factors of his papers reached to 130 and his papers have been cited formore than 700 times.He has an impressive array of awards as recognition for his scientific achievements. He has orally presented his findings at the International conferences for a number of times.

Dr. Fan’s current research focuses on entry and fusion of herpes simplex virus (HSV). He worked on glycoprotein B (gB) and gL, two of four glycoproteins essential for HSV entry and cell fusion. He studied the interaction between gB and paired immunoglobulin like-type 2 receptor (PILRα) characterizing a panel of new gB mutants. He discovered specific regions within gB that are particularly important for the functional activity of PILRα. He then tackled gL identifying domains of gL that are critical for gL to interact with gH. He also determined that PILRb does not function as a gB receptor like PILRα and mapped key amino acids required for PILRα function.
生命科学与工程学院

2013年7月10日